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The world as Yuri Gagarin saw it

Fifty years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space. In doing so, he didn’t just take humanity into a bold new era of exploration – he also got to see our planet in a way no one else ever had before. There aren’t any photos of the Earth…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

In comics, Hellboy meets mutant cows (and everyone wants to be Cobra Commander)

Everybody wants to rule the world (as Tears for Fears once so poignantly noticed), and the comic book baddies at Cobra are not immune to such megalomania. Also, new Hellboy and a very foul-mouthed talking rabbit! New Releases IDW’s gearing up for the Cobra Civil War in several title. With Cobra Commander dead and gone,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Look upon these t-shirts and despair . . . for you cannot have them all

You’re probably familiar with the Despair, Inc. “demotivator” posters featuring stock art and mean aphorisms about productivity and teamwork. But did you know they also make tees? Oh yes. They tout steampunk politics, 8-bit dragons, and of course despair. Here are a few t-shirts you won’t be able to resist snarfing up for $16 at…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch Jax and Kano duke it out in the first episode of the Mortal Kombat web series

The first installment of Kevin Tancharoen’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy has hit the web. Check out police officers Jax (Michael Jai White) and Sonya Blade (Jeri Ryan) infiltrate Kano’s (Darren Shahlavi) nefarious cybernetics factory. And no, nobody’s spine gets ripped out. In case you haven’t see the short film that led to the production of this…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

How scientists can safely put antifreeze in your frozen yogurt

You want your food to be really cold, but not frozen – unfortunately, chemical antifreeze kills people. Find out how biological antifreeze is formed, and how companies are going to use it. Traditional antifreeze can’t go in food products. It’s not that it’s unpalatable. In fact, it’s so sweet that there are products used in…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Spoiler-Free Review of Doctor Who’s Next Two Episodes

Last night, we saw the opening two-parter of the sixth season of Doctor Who, in the company of the show’s stars and showrunner. We won’t give away any of the amazing surprises in store, but here are a few hints. Doctor Who fans from all over headed to New York, for a special two-episode screening,…

Television Meredith Woerner

Movie Theaters Begin Slapfight With Studios over New Flicks On-Demand

Remember that impossibly-bad sounding idea of renting a movie on-demand for $30? (But only if it’s not too successful!) Well it’s not bad enough to fly under the radar of theater owners, infuriated by the thought of lost profits. https://gizmodo.com/the-age-of-30-movie-rentals-is-upon-us-5787819 We’re still not really sure who would go for this $30 ripoff, other than members…

Movies Sam Biddle

Edgar Wright confirms Ant-Man won’t be in The Avengers. Plus our first look at major returning characters on Fringe and Doctor Who!

Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish give a promising update on their Ant-Man script, but the character definitely has no part in The Avengers. Tons of revealing new images for Doctor Who, and the Fringe cast prepares for an epic return. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The Avengers…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Little girl joins the Dark Side, is promptly kicked out of the Jedi Academy

Watch as one brave young Padawan publicly pledges her allegiance to Darth Vader, causing a befuddled Mace Windu to escort her off stage and send her to the “Sith Academy.” I think we’ve just found the next Secret Apprentice! While on a family trip to Disneyland, one little girl was asked to battle Darth Vader…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Short video reveals the truth about brontomerus’ thunder thighs

Last month we told you about a new scientific study that revealed the mighty brontomerus, named for its meaty “thunder thighs,” was probably a formidable fighter capable of kicking its enemies to the side with those powerful mega-legs. But now this video reveals the truth about how bronomerus probably fought. https://gizmodo.com/thunder-thighed-dinosaur-had-the-most-powerful-kick-eve-5773221 I may have mentioned…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What If Your Characters Don’t Want Anything?

It’s one of the most common pieces of writing advice: Know what every character wants in a scene. But what if your characters are just apathetic? It could happen. I mean, in real life, most of the time, people want something kind of boring, that barely qualifies as a “want.” You want to get your…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Spaces Between Stars: The secret connection between crime fiction and science fiction

Acclaimed science fiction and comics writer Warren Ellis just signed a two-book deal with Mulholland Books to publish two novels, starting with The Gun Machine in 2012. To celebrate, he explains why science fiction and crime fiction are the same. My name’s Warren Ellis. I’m mostly a science fiction writer. I’m sometimes also a crime…

Books & Comics Warren Ellis

Mutation breeding creates the world’s most perfect orange

The KinnowLS mandarin orange, pictured at right, is incredibly sweet, has almost no seeds, a skin so thin it’s easily peeled, and can grow in the desert. And it’s a mutant created almost the same way Hulk was. Today the Plant Biology department at the University of California at Riverside announced the successful creation of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A live orchestra plays a medley of swinging tracks from The Venture Bros.

Last year Venture Bros. composer JG Thirlwell performed the show’s tiki-bar-meets-secret-lair soundtrack at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park with his big band outfit Steroid Maximus. Here’s recently released footage of Thirlwell and company’s snazzy performance. The above video is a medley of the instrumentals “Fumblestealth,” “Bolly,” and “No Vacancy (Venture Bros. Theme),” and the below video is…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Go behind the scenes and into the woods with the ladies from the live-action ElfQuest

Last week, the fan-made ElfQuest trailer set the internet on fire. Today, we have an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the pointy ears behind this fan creation. Get to know your Elf ladies, and their long haired human enemies, right now. Blessed by ElfQuest comic creators Richard and Wendy Pini, Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes set…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Win this delightful Sharktopus plushie!

You know that the adorable, limb-chomping beast from Sharktopus was destined to be a plushie, and now you can have one of your very own. Just enter our Sharktocontest to win it, plus DVDs of Syfy classics Sharktopus and Dinoshark. Thanks to the friendly folks at Anchor Bay, distributors of these fine films, three winners…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The latent erotic tension in the film Predator

Predator is probably the most unflinchingly macho film in existence, but does the blockbuster’s chain guns and shoulder cannons and cigar smoking hide a much more nuanced tale of sexual awakening? Here’s a cheeky psychoanalysis of everyone’s favorite Yautja thriller. The writer of this piece was inspired in part by J.G. Ballard’s 1968 psychosexual assessment…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Cloverfield director is adapting the original paranoid “aliens among us” short story

Let Me In and Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is adapting Ray Nelson’s short story 8 O’Clock in the Morning for film, read it now! The story, about a man who wakes up one day realizing that aliens are secretly controlling everything, was the original inspiration behind They Live. And this presumably means Cloverfield 2 is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Detroit’s Future Challenge: How to Shrink a City

Could Detroit’s dilemma be the wave of the future for other atrophying U.S. cities? The New York Times reports that the Motor City is facing an urban planning crisis nobody expected: how to make the city smaller. We ran some heart-breaking photos of Detroit’s urban decay a while back, and mayor Dave Bing and urban…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Should Sinbad really go to space?

Many of us grew up gorging on the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad series, which started in the 1950s with The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. There were fighting skeletons, a stop-motion cyclops, and more. But should the franchise really get an update? The 1977 flick Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is that last anybody has…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The world as Yuri Gagarin saw it

In comics, Hellboy meets mutant cows (and everyone wants to be Cobra Commander)

Look upon these t-shirts and despair . . . for you cannot have them all

Watch Jax and Kano duke it out in the first episode of the Mortal Kombat web series

How scientists can safely put antifreeze in your frozen yogurt

Spoiler-Free Review of Doctor Who’s Next Two Episodes

Movie Theaters Begin Slapfight With Studios over New Flicks On-Demand

Edgar Wright confirms Ant-Man won’t be in The Avengers. Plus our first look at major returning characters on Fringe and Doctor Who!

Little girl joins the Dark Side, is promptly kicked out of the Jedi Academy

Short video reveals the truth about brontomerus’ thunder thighs

What If Your Characters Don’t Want Anything?

The Spaces Between Stars: The secret connection between crime fiction and science fiction

Mutation breeding creates the world’s most perfect orange

A live orchestra plays a medley of swinging tracks from The Venture Bros.

Go behind the scenes and into the woods with the ladies from the live-action ElfQuest

Win this delightful Sharktopus plushie!

The latent erotic tension in the film Predator

Cloverfield director is adapting the original paranoid “aliens among us” short story

Detroit’s Future Challenge: How to Shrink a City

Should Sinbad really go to space?

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